This is Optimal Living Daily, episode 726.

Speed up by Steve Pavlina of StevePavlina.com and I'm Justin Mollick.

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Speed up by StevePavlina of StevePavlina.com

Don't use the enjoy the process mantra to justify slogging along even more slowly

and watching your goals die.

It's a huge limiting belief to assume that going faster means you're doing something wrong

and creating too much stress.

Making goals happen faster is often a lot more fun.

Fast tempo is how you enjoy the process, and some goals cannot be achieved slowly at all,

so in many cases faster means success, while slower means failure.

If going faster makes the process of achieving your goal less enjoyable for you, you've probably

chosen the wrong goals to begin with.

If you don't want them sooner, you probably don't want them.

On my first attempt at college, I tried going the normal student pacing towards graduation.

I found my classes boring and uninspiring.

The goal of graduating in four years seemed distant and too much out of my control.

The whole experience was pretty depressing, despite the fact that I was attending the number

one school in the nation for my major at the time.

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